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Nicely done Peder, a place of peacefulness.:)

abc: Is there not some mandatory test given to people over the age of 80 to see if they are o.k. to drive? I know that here the motor vehicle people require a written test for when a person reaches 80, I don't know if and when there is a road test but the written test and eye test probably...

What do you mean by personal freedom? As far as privacy goes - would I like my friends and neighbours and/or the government to know every last detail of my life (boring though it may be) - no I wouldn't like that, but the powers that be may already have gathered much information, however...

Hello Jonb - I note that you are 'following' me - I hope it is in a friendly way. :)

It maybe is a case of the barn door now being open and the horses have fled - once the information is out there how do you call it back. I would like to see paedophile rings shut down and there seems to be measures in place in some countries to monitor this but there again how do you separate...

I think if ever Lee Child has Reacher settle down that will be the end of the series featuring Jack, can't imagine Reacher as a homebody.

Have read mostly all of Lee Child's books and enjoyed them, some better than others.

D0 you feel you are in more danger from some action by the US regarding your personal security rather than from within your own country?

Do they not have any religious observance in a kibbutz in Israel. Seems that many young Jewish people travel to Israel as part of their rite of passage? Do they get their religious instruction from home and then leave it be until they return? I don't know anything at all about gematria...

As to your other comment - well its my data and yours as non-US citizens they are particularly targetting. \ I didn't get that from the couple of newspapers that we get daily. I don't think anyone rummaging around in my e-mails is going to find anything terribly exciting, nor my telephone...

I think that in your book you use the Torah as your one immutable authority - or did I read that wrong? And isn't the Torah the basis for Judaism? Isn't Judaism a religion? I'm not at all familiar with gematria which according to Google is Hebrew numerology but you quoted English gematria -...

And Russia has a spotless reputation in world politics?

I think there is quite a large difference between data collection and empowering police to arrest anyone who just looks suspicious. One thing that I find a little bit bizarre in our discussion is that neither one of us is a US citizen and here we are back and forth about US politics. Strange...

You were suggesting repealing the Patriot Act, doesn't that, at the moment, cover whatever it is that the US is (or is not) doing? Do you know that Mr. Snowden has not been talking to the Chinese authorities, or, for that matter, any other country not sympathetic towards the US?

It could be treasonous if what he is possibly making available to other governments in some way harms the US, ie, he has fled to Hong Kong and China may well put to use some of his information (that is, if they don't already have it by their own cyber snooping. :rolleyes: ) It's certainly a...

Whoa - now you are venturing into numerology which again is a rather unusual subject. I've known people change their names because of numerology and while it was perfectly acceptable for them to call themselves whatever they wanted, it still tended to put them on the fringe of normal behaviour...

Do you believe that Edward Snowden, "The Whistleblower" is being heroic or is he behaving in a treasonous manner?

Science I believe is based on empirical data whereas faith (religion) is belief in non-empirical data. I'm not sure that you can say that religion takes up where science leaves off. Trying to make sense of everything is the human condition and where I think there seem to be no answers faith...

Meadow, what would you suggest is a way of reversing this gathering of information?

I think maybe the people listening or looking for credible threats might be quite a bit smarter than what you are giving them credit for. Information I imagine is disseminated in all sorts of ways other than telephone lines and I'm sure the various agencies are well aware of that.